1916.] I. H. N. Evans: Sakai of the Korbu River. 79 



were made locally. Of the other two, one had been purchased 

 from a " Kampong Kelantan man " (on the Kelantan border ?), 

 t he other from a wandering abougine from some unknown district. 

 The weapons, however, presented some peculiarities worth 

 noting, as they were, roughly speaking, intermediate in type 

 between those used by the main branches of the Northern and 

 Central Sakai. All the blow-pipes had the Mat-ended mouth- 

 piece of the Central Sakai, but the inner tube in three out of 

 the four was a single internode of bamboo (Northern Sakai 

 type) ; in the remaining specimen, however, which was locally 

 made, it consisted of two internodes placed end to end and 

 fastened in the usual manner employed by the Central Sakai. 

 The only locally made quiver that I saw had a soft pandanus 

 cover of the type so common in the Batang District of Perak. 

 The quiver belonging to the " Kampong Kelantan " blow-pipe 

 had a hard cover of the Northern Sakai variety. 



The two poisons used on the blow-pipe darts are Ipoh 

 and Broyal *, the latter which is obtained from a liana, is only 

 used for small gane, and is, the Sakai told me, much less 

 effective than Ipoh. Darts treated with Broyal are not 

 notched above the poison (so that the dart joint may break off 

 in the wound); those treated with Ipoh are. 



Spears, with a bamboo blade and a wooden shaft, are 

 used in spring -traps, and a number of these were placed across 

 the rafters of the communal house at Bukit Daroh. With the 

 exception of the blow-pipe, iron-bladed spears of Malay manu- 

 facture, krises, parangs, and daggers of the kind called tumbuk 

 lada and badck were the only weapons in use. 



On questioning the Sakai, they said they had heard of the 

 bow, which is used by the Negritos and the hill-tribes of the 

 Piah and Temengoh Valleys, but had never seen a specimen. 



A fair number of dogs are kept by the Kinta aborigines, 

 while generally speaking they are well treated aud a good deal 

 of affection shown to them. 



Of the objects that I collected the most interesting were 

 the face-paint stamps, and wooden combs of various types, 

 some of which seem to be peculiar to the district, and are 

 almost exactly similar to those figured by De Morgan in his 

 " Negritos de la Presqu'ile Malaise." 



Two holders used for fish-bait, consisting of open bamboo 

 receptacles, with a spike from their bases (this spike being for 

 securing the holder on the left side of the body by slipping it 

 into the girdle), are of a kind also figured by de Morgan with 

 the description " Boites a amorces de peche," and by Skeat 

 (Pagan Races, vol. 1, page 471) as " Bamboo vessels used by 

 Perak Sakai (Hale collection)." I also procured several 

 specimens of seed necklaces, carrying baskets, bark-cloth, 

 headbands (ornamented with patterns), akar batu girdles and 



' The I'rual of Wray (Coptosapella flavescens) ' vide " Pagan Races " vol. 

 II, page 303. 



